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THE HOME NURSERY, LA FAYETTE, ILLINOIS 
Hardy Ornamental Shrubs ■* ** 
A Public Park, designed and planted by the Home Nursery Landscape Service. 
Nature Is always bounteous in her gifts to man and 
has been unstinted in giving us a great wealth of shrubs 
with their perfume and flowers, with their varied colored 
foliage and bright fruit. No one with home grounds 
either large or small should be without enjoyment of 
these wonderful gifts. Who can measure the uplifting 
influence they have upon those who are enraptured by 
their beauty and fragrance! 
They require but little care when once established, and 
grow in size and beauty each year. They are very effec¬ 
tive for screens, borders and for grouping on the lawn. 
There may be had a succession of bloom the entire sea¬ 
son by planting the various kinds, and many will hang 
with highly colored fruit during the fall and winter. 
There is scarcely a home in country, suburb or town, 
the beauty and value of which cannot be enhanced by 
a judicious planting of the grounds, be they large or 
small; and for this purpose there is no class of plants 
that lend themselves more readily than the hardy 
flowering shrubs. In this part of the west their im¬ 
portance has only begun to be appreciated. 
To meet this demand we have added a number of de¬ 
sirable hardy flowering and ornamental-leaved varieties 
to our list of shrubs. 
ARALIA PENTAFHYLLA (Five-Leaved Ara.Ha)— Of 
compact, graceful outline, with bright green and shin¬ 
ing foliage, attaining a height from 5 to 7 feet. Pro¬ 
duces a luxuriant glossy foliage effect. Well adapted 
to dark, shady places, where other shrubs fail. Price, 
each 35c; per 10, $3.00. 
ARALIA SPINOSA (Hercules Club)—Upright growing 
shrub or small tree with handsome cut leaves 2 to 3 
feet long, giving a tropical effect. Flowers white, in 
enormous clusters in August. A very odd tropical- 
looking shrub. Price, each 40c; per 10, $3.50. 
AMYGDALUS (Flowering Almond)—Very early spring 
flowering shrub, gaily in bloom before the leaves ap¬ 
pear. On account of the bright pink color of the 
bloom, it is one of the most attractive of the extra 
earlv spring-flowering shrubs. Price, each 35c; per 
10, $3.00. 
ALPINE CURRANT—A very hardy shrub of dense 
habit, unfolding very early its bright green foliage, 
adorned in summer and autumn with bright scarlet 
berries; it is one of the best shrubs to plant as under¬ 
growth or in shady places. Well adapted to hedging 
and stands any amount of shearing and shows no 
shear marks. Makes an ideal solid hedge and holds its 
foliage until late in the fall. Makes a dense, round, 
conical bush when grown as a specimen. Price, each 
35c; per 10, $3.00; per 100, $25.00. 
FLOWERING CURRANT (Ribes Odoratum)—A hand¬ 
some shrub with yellow, very fragrant flowers ap¬ 
pearing with the leaves in early spring. An old- 
fashioned shrub, popular in Grandmother’s day. 
Price, each 25c; per 10, $2.00. 
ALTHEA (Rose of Sharon)—Upright growing shrub 
noted for its profusion of large blooms, much like the 
tender Hibiscus, blooming late in August until Octo¬ 
ber. Should be planted in a somewhat protected 
situation in this latitude. Although it sometimes kills 
back by the winter, the bloom is produced on the new 
growth and always has an abundance of bright colored 
flowers. Price, each 40c; per 10, $3.50. 
Flowering Almond, (Amygdalus), Home Nursery 
Grounds. 
Remember, we visit grounds, either private or public, and give suggestions for beauti¬ 
fying with shrubs and plants. Owing to our immense stock of ornamentals, we are able 
to make very low prices on quantity. Correspondence invited. 
